Page numbers for articles

[lenrsmith]

I have been unable to sort out where my problem lies, so I am not convinced that it has anything to do with this package. I need to cite specific page numbers within articles, but I am getting footnotes with the entire page range from the BibTex entry. Here is how I am citing the content:

\cite[179]{Wilson:1975aa}

The result looks like

Robert R. Wilson, “The Old Testament Genealogies In Recent Research.,” Journal of Biblical Literature 94.2 (1975): 169–89.

I would use autocite, but I am using it in a footnote with other citations. The whole citation should look like this:

6. Wilson, Genealogy and History in the Biblical World, 9. Yigal Levin, “Understanding Biblical Genealogies,” Currents in Research 9 (2001): 12. Robert R. Wilson, “The Old Testament Genealogies In Recent Research.,” Journal of Biblical Literature 94.2 (1975): 179.

I've tried the following approaches with the exact same results: \footnote{\cite[9]{Wilson:1977aa}. \cite[12]{Levin:2001aa}. \cite[179]{Wilson:1975aa}.} \autocites[9]{Wilson:1977aa}[12]{Levin:2001aa}[179]{Wilson:1975aa}

[dcpurton]

This is by design. SBL requires the full page range to be specified for the first citation. You will get the specified page for subsequent citations.

You can override this behaviour by passing citepages=omit to biblatex. Other options for this are sbl (default), permit, and separate.

permit will give you the specified page in parentheses after the page range. e.g., 168–89 (179). separate includes the thiscite string in the parentheses following the page range. e.g., 169–89 (esp. 179).

See the biblatex-sbl manual for more details and examples on using the citepages option.

[lenrsmith]

Thanks, David. I'm still getting my wrapped around SBL style, so this is one of those 'duh' moments.

[dcpurton]

No worries!